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MEASURING FAUGET.

No. 397,854. Patented Feb. 12, 1889.

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ROBERT M. GREEN AND FRANK D. GREEN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENN- SYLVANIA.

MEASURING=FAUCET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397,854, dated February12, 1889.

Application filed September 13, 1888. Serial No. 285,312. (No model.)

Our invention relates to improvements in measuring-fancets; and itconsists of a casing or shell having an inlet and outlet, and a hollowmeasuring plug or spigot fitting in said casing, provided with portsadapted to register with the inlet and outlet of the casing,

and, furthermore, in said shell and plug having air-vents.

Figure 1 represents a central longitudinal sectional view of ameasuring-faucet embodying our inven tion, the same being closed. Fig. 2represents a central longitudinalsectional view thereof in open ordischarging position. Fig. 2-3 represents a section on line a? .1 Fig.1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

Referring tothe drawings, A designates the casing or shell of thefaucet, which is provided with an inlet, 1, oi'ltlet and airvent D.

E designates the hollow plug or measuringehamber, which is seated withinthe casing or shell A and provided with ports F F, constituting theinlet and outlet of said plug, and an opening or vent, G, to allow airto enter the same. The interior surface of the plug may be covered withrubber or other material to prevent the liquid from contacting with themetallic surface thereof. The plug is provided with a lug, H, which isadapted to engage with shoulders H on the casing, and forms a stop forsaid plug.

J designates a stem on the plug, which projects outward through theopeningin the cap K of the casing or shell, and to the end of the stemor rod is attached a handle for turning the plug. A spring, L, is placedaround the stem and bears against the plug and the cap K, the purpose ofwhich is to hold the plug on its seat.

The operation is as follows: The plug, when in its normal position, asshown in Fig. 1, has the port F therein communicating with theinlet-opening in the casing, consequently allowing the entrance of theliquid to fill said plug. The handle is then operated, rotating the pluga quarter-turn and causing the said port F therein to close, and at thesame time causing port F to communicate with the outlet-opening of thecasing or shell, the ventopenings in said plug and shell also beingbrought into communication, whereby the liquid is permitted to flow fromthe port in the rotary plug through the outlet in the casing, the oneport of the plug serving as the inlet and the other port of the plugserving as the outlet therefor, as is evident.

The shoulders H on the casing are at op posite ends of a segmentalflange, M, to which the cap K is screwed, said cap thus inclosing theend of the casing and adjacent parts. The shoulders may be separated adistance twice that shown, so that the plug may make a halfturn, inwhich case the port F may be dispensed with, and the port F will be boththe outlet and inlet of the plug.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure byLetters Patent, is

1. In a measuring-faucet, a shell, a plug therein, and a lug connectedwith said plug, and a cap, said shell having a segmental flange to whichthe cap is screwed, and provided with shoulders at the ends thereof, substantially as described.

2. A measuring-faucet consisting of a shell having an inlet and anoutlet port and an airvent, and provided with a'segrnental flange, a capsecured to said flange, a hollow plug located in said shell, and havingports and vent registering with said ports and vent in said shell, andprovided with a stem having a bearing in said cap, a handle on the outerend of said stem, and lugs on the stem end of said plug, said partsbeing combined substantially as described.

ROBT. M. GREEN. FRANK D. GREEN. lVitnesses:

J OHN A. WIEDERsHEIM, JAMEs F. KELLY.

